1980S | 1990s
During the first Global Service Learning trip to China, Sophie Shulman ’06, left, and Rebecca Page ’06, play a game with village school kids near Lijiang, Yunnan province.
1990s-2000s Curriculum began to reflect a less Lakeside students playing chess during a match with Moscow School #20, 1985. In the foreground, Andrew Miner ’86, Mark Natkin ’86 at center, and Derek Edmonds ’86 facing away.
1980s By the 1980s, the school began looking outward more; the school initiated various exchanges with Moscow School #20 beginning in 1984.
Eurocentric and more globally oriented perspective under Bernie Noe, who became head of school in 1999. With a new mission focus, codified in 2004, academic departments focused more on world history, literature, and languages, and the Global Service Learning Program took shape. Some changes were controversial; the school’s laptop requirement for students grade 7 and up initially met with a fair amount of resistance when it was announced in 2001, for example. But by and large, curricular changes have been embraced by the community and understood as necessary for the school’s growth and its ability to remain relevant in a changing world. ■ Sources include: “Footnotes from the Headmaster,” by Dexter K. Strong, 1985; “PNAIS: Making a Difference,” by George Edwards, 2009; the Jane Carlson Williams ’60 Archives. Leslie A. Schuyler is archivist for the Jane Carlson Williams ’60 Archives at Lakeside School. Reach her at 206-440-2895 or archives@lakesideschool.org.
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